Ian Finnerty completed a sweep of breaststroke events, and Indiana University finished third Saturday night in the men’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at Minneapolis. It was the Hoosiers' highest place in 43 years.

Texas won a fourth consecutive team title with 449 points. California was second with 437.5, and the Hoosiers scored 422.

It was the closest three-team race since the 1983 NCAAs at Indianapolis. Florida beat SMU 238-227 for the title that year, and Texas was third with 225.

The Hoosiers had not finished in the top three since placing second in 1975. They won the last of their six national championships in 1973 under coach Doc Counsilman.

Indiana led after the second and third days of the four-day meet but lacked the necessary depth to hold off Texas and Cal.

“This meet has been kind of surreal,” Indiana coach Ray Looze said. “It’s not been perfect. But it’s as close to an on-point meet as I’ve seen. We’re so thin, compared to our competition.”

Indiana’s Vini Lanza, a junior from Brazil, was third in the 200 butterfly in 1:39.75 for his third Big Ten record of the meet. He was third in Friday’s 100 butterfly, highest by a Hoosier in that event since Gary Hall’s second place in 1973.

IU senior Blake Pieroni was fourth in the 100 freestyle, in which Florida senior Caeleb Dressel clocked 39.90 to become the first ever under 40 seconds. Pieroni had been No. 2 qualifier, setting a Big Ten record of 41.16.

Pieroni started the meet Wednesday night by clocking 1:29.63 on first leg of the 800 freestyle relay, becoming the first ever to swim 200 yards in less than 1:30. Texas’ Townley Haas reclaimed the American record in Friday’s 200 freestyle, winning a third straight title and relegating Pieroni to second in 1:30.23.

Finnerty is the first ever under 50 seconds in the 100 breaststroke, winning that Friday in 49.69. Previous American record of 50.03 was set by Dressel on Feb. 17.

Purdue’s Steele Johnson, a junior from Carmel, repeated as 3-meter diving champion Friday night. He revealed afterward he has been coping with a broken foot for three years, meaning he won an Olympic silver medal in 2016 despite that injury.

Johnson was third heading into the final round but earned 8s and 9s on his 4 ½ somersault tuck for a score of 96.90 points, highest of the 48-dive competition.

He finished with 499.35 points. Tennessee’s Colin Zeng was second with 460.70 and Indiana’s Michael Hixon third with 454.85. Hixon, also an Olympic silver medalist, was 1-meter champion Thursday.

Johnson, a five-time NCAA champion, missed eight weeks of training this year to allow for healing. He was 10th Saturday on 10-meter platform, his specialty. Indiana’s Andrew Capobianco, the only freshman to qualify on all three boards, was third.

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